Nurse-managed health centers: Safety-net care through advanced nursing practice

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-31

  Esperat, Maria Christina R ^a   Hanson Turton, Tine ^b   Richardson, Michele ^c   Tyree Debisette, Annette ^d   Rupinta, Catherine ^c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Philadelphia Health Management Corporation   (United States)

^c HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Nurse practitioners; Nurse managed clinics; Practice models; Safety net; Vulnerable populations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MANPOWER; NURSE PRACTITIONER;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH FACILITIES; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84855965481     PISSN: 10412972     EISSN: 17457599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7599.2011.00677.x     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. AARP. (2010). Nursing Provisions PL 111-148, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Washington, DC: AARP Public Policy Institute.
2. Buppert, C. (2004). Nurse practitioner's business practice and legal guide (2nd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
3. Clear, J. B., Marlow Starbecker, M., & Kelly, D. W. (1999). Nursing centers and health promotion: A federal vantage point. Family & Community Health, 21(4), 1-14.
4. Debisette, A. T., Brown, C. R., & Chamberlain, N. (2006). A nursing perspective from United States Public Health Service nurses. Journal of Professional Nursing, 22(5), 270-272.
5. Dill, M. J., & Salsberg, E. S. (2008). The complexities of physician supply and demand: Projections through 2025. Washington, DC: Association of American Medical Colleges: Center for Workforce Studies.
6. Druss, B. G., Marcus, S. C., Olfson, M., Tanielian, T., & Pincus, H. A. (2003). Trends in care by nonphysician clinicians in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine, 348(2), 130-137. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa020993.
7. Esperat, M. C., Green, A., & Acton, C. (2004). One vision of academic nursing centers. Nursing Economics, 22(6), 307-312, 319, 291.
8. Hansen-Turton, T. (2005). The nurse-managed health center safety net: A policy solution to reducing health disparities. Nursing Clinics of North America, 40(4), 729-738, xi. doi: 10.1016/j.cnur.2005.08.005.
9. Institute of Medicine. (2010). The future of nursing: Leading change, advancing health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
10. Lewin, M. E., Altman, S. H., & Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Changing Market Managed Care and the Future Viability of Safety Net Providers. (2000). America's health care safety net: Intact but endangered. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
11. Mezey, M. D., McGivern, D. O. N., & Sullivan-Marx, E. (2003). Nurse practitioners: Evolution of advanced practice (4th ed.). New York: Springer Pub.
12. Mundinger, M. O., Kane, R. L., Lenz, E. R., Totten, A. M., Tsai, W. Y., Cleary, P. D., Shelanski, M. L. (2000). Primary care outcomes in patients treated by nurse practitioners or physicians: A randomized trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 283(1), 59-68. doi: joc90696 [pii].
13. National Nursing Centers Consortium. (2004). Nurse-managed health centers briefing. Capitol Hill: National Nursing Centers Consortium.
14. National Nursing Centers Consortium. (2005). Nurse practitioners: Increasing access, eliminating health disparities. Philadelphia: National Nursing Centers Consortium.
15. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2000). Healthy people 2010. Washington, DC: Author.
16. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration. (2010). The registered nurse population: Initial findings from the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses.